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No, but if all the miners fork from all the non mining nodes, the chain with all the miners will be more secure. If a minority of miners side with the non minin
by ses1984 5y ago
No, but if all the miners fork from all the non mining nodes, the chain with all the miners will be more secure. If a minority of miners side with the non mining nodes, that chain will be more vulnerable to disruption.
- inter_netuser 5y agoWould you hire a security company again, if they refused to protect you when the push comes to shove? That's all miners are. Mercenaries hired for 10 minutes at a time.
- ses1984 5y agoYeah exactly. Not sure if you realize the implication of what happens if you arm a bunch of mercenaries and then fire them and turn your backs on them.
- inter_netuser 5y agoThis has already played out. The breakaway hostile fork is now worth 2 percent of the original work. So..nothing?
- ses1984 5y agoI’m pretty sure that shows that miners follow the money. They will mine whatever chain where they can sell the block reward to the highest bidder. Anyway I don’t think reality is as simple as your last comment suggests. There was a lot going on at the time including a lot of misinformation.